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Villette (in 3 vols.)

Villette (in 3 vols.) by [Brontë, Charlotte] Currer Bell

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Seller: Whitmore Rare Books
Title
Villette (in 3 vols.)
Author
[Brontë, Charlotte] Currer Bell
Seller
Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
London: Smith, Elder, & Co, 1853. First edition. Near Fine. With the publisher's catalogue dated January 1853 at the end of volume one. A Very Good+ copy, a clean and appealing set overall. Three volumes, octavo (121 x 191 mm). Collating complete except for the half-titles: [4], 324, [12 pp., publisher's catalogue]; [4], 319, [1]; [2], 350, [2] pp. Attractively bound in late nineteenth-century half red morocco over marbled boards. Top edge gilt. Minor edgewear. Some light occasional foxing and a few dusty finger marks. Leaf O2 in volume one with a small amateur tape repair to margin (not touching text). Small modern ink ownership stamp to lower pastedown of each volume. Published under the pseudonym Currer Bell, Villette was Charlotte Brontë's third and final novel released during her lifetime, following Shirley (1848) and her massively influential debut Jane Eyre (1847). Villette, a masterpiece in its own right, "powerfully portrays a woman struggling to reconcile love, jealousy, and a fierce desire for independence. Having fled a harrowing past in England, Lucy Snowe begins a new life teaching at a boarding school in the great capital of a foreign country. There, as she tries to achieve independence from both outer necessity and inward grief, she finds that her feelings for a worldly doctor and a dictatorial professor threaten her hard-won self possession...Brontë's last novel was written in the wake of her grief at the death of her siblings. It has a dramatic force comparable to that of her other masterpiece, Jane Eyre, as well as a striking modernity of psychological insight and a revolutionary understanding of human loneliness" (Vintage). Since its publication, Villette has inspired a broad range of writers, from George Eliot to Kazuo Ishiguro; in the Common Reader, Virginia Woolf called it Brontë's "finest novel" and praised the emotional depth and poetry of the writing (p. 224). Sadleir 394. Near Fine.
The Famous Black Moguls. Song and Chorus. [From A Trip to Coontown]

The Famous Black Moguls. Song and Chorus. [From A Trip to Coontown] by [African-Americana – Performance] Johnson, Billy; Cole, Bob

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Title
The Famous Black Moguls. Song and Chorus. [From A Trip to Coontown]
Author
[African-Americana – Performance] Johnson, Billy; Cole, Bob
Seller
Auger Down Books (United States)
Condition
Very good.
Description
New York: Howley; Haviland and Co, 1898. Folio, 4 pp. Covers split, stamp from a Kalamazoo, Michigan piano store near publisher information, otherwise near fine, with the lithographic illustration very bright and attractive, very good overall. Very good.. An illustrated sheet for “The Famous Black Moguls,” one of the opening choruses from A Trip to Coontown, the musical comedy written, produced, directed, and performed by Bob Cole and Billy Johnson during the 1897–1898 theatrical season. The show is recognized as among the earliest full-length musical productions created and staged under African American creative control. The work evolved from Cole’s earlier sketch At Jolly Coon-ey Island, written for Black Patti’s Troubadours, and its title parodied the popular musical A Trip to Chinatown (1891). Production records identify “The Famous Black Moguls” as an early Act I number performed by the character Captain Fleetfoot, placing it among the introductory musical selections used to establish the show’s principal characters and theatrical setting. The show premiered in South Amboy, New Jersey, on September 27, 1897, and later appeared in New York at the Third Avenue Theatre in April 1898. Theater historian Thomas L. Riis and co-authors describe the production as: “performed, directed, and produced by African Americans, an astounding feat in an era where few independent theaters could even consider taking a chance on such a production. Unfortunately, the play—like so many other nineteenth-century African American documents and artifacts—was lost, and scholars could only make conjectures (based mainly on newspaper reviews) about what it looked and sounded like. ”[1] Peter Lefferts, in “A Chronology of the Career of Bob Cole: Materials for a Biography,” found a program from April, 1898 that identifies “The Famous Black Moguls” was the first song in the production.[2] We are unable to identify the artist for the illustration. We find one copy of this sheet in OCLC, at the British Library Reference Collections, and nothing else from the original show in commerce at the time of writing. Overall a very scarce and attractive sheet from an important production with little surviving ephemeral record. [1] Krystyn R. Moon, David Krasner, and Thomas L. Riis, “Forgotten Manuscripts: A Trip to Coontown,” African American Review 44, no. 1/2 (2011): 7–24. [2] Peter M. Lefferts, “A Chronology and Itinerary of the Career of Bob Cole: Materials for a Biography”, Faculty Publications: School of Music. 56 (University of Nebraska, 2016).
Letters on Organization

Letters on Organization by [AFRICAN AMERICANA] JOHNSON, J.R. (pseud. of C.L.R. James)

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Title
Letters on Organization
Author
[AFRICAN AMERICANA] JOHNSON, J.R. (pseud. of C.L.R. James)
Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description
Detroit: Facing Reality Publishing Committee, [1963]. First Edition. Quarto (28cm); mimeographed sheets (rectos), saddle-stitched into yellow mimeographed card covers; 59pp. Light wear and dustiness to covers, ink date to upper right corner of front cover, with subtle toning to text edges; contents clean; Near Fine. A late work from Facing Reality, a small faction of C.L.R. James loyalists that remained following the split in the Johnson-Forrest Tendency in 1955. The group was led by Martin Glaberman in the U.S. and C.L.R. James in England. The contents consist of a series of letters from James to Glaberman (who he addresses as "Marty"). "The letters put forward the idea that the changes in the world since Lenin's time have not merely changed the objective situation which Marxists face but have also changed the working class and the conceptions and ideas of people all over the world. The threat of atomic weapons, the experience of two world wars, a major world-wide depression, fascism and the development of capitalist production itself -- all have combined to create universal hostility to present day society, in developed and undeveloped countries alike...The Marxist organization must be able to recognize this drive toward a new society, record it and align itself with it in a newspaper. The kind of preparation necessary for producing a successful newspaper and the kinds of discipline and attitudes which must be attained before a newspaper can become possible are detailed" (from the preface). A significant collection of correspondence, uncommon in commerce. OCLC notes 10 holdings, of these, only 7 in U.S. institutions.
Playing with Fire [Le jeu avec le feu] (Original lobby cards, program, and photographs from the 1975 film)

Playing with Fire [Le jeu avec le feu] (Original lobby cards, program, and photographs from the 1975 film) by Sylvia Kristel (starring); Alain Robbe-Grillet (director, screenwriter); Jean-Louis Trintignant, Philippe Noiret, Anicee Alvina (starring)

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Playing with Fire [Le jeu avec le feu] (Original lobby cards, program, and photographs from the 1975 film)
Author
Sylvia Kristel (starring); Alain Robbe-Grillet (director, screenwriter); Jean-Louis Trintignant, Philippe Noiret, Anicee Alvina (starring)
Seller
Royal Books (United States)
Description
France: Arcadie Productions, 1975. Collection of promotional ephemera from the 1975 French film, including a program, ten lobby cards, and two black-and-white reference photographs. Text in French. One of ten films directed by Alain Robbe-Grillet, ostensibly about the target of a kidnapping plot hiding out at a high society brothel, but in reality an exercise in image making, fourth wall breaking, and the exploration of Robbe-Grillet's usual concerns of eroticism, voyeurism, and doppelgängers. One of his most commercially successful films, down mostly to the presence of "Emmanuelle" star Sylvia Kristel, far more prevalent in the marketing material than in the actual film. Lobby cards (10): 11.5 x 9.25 inches. Very Good plus. Photographs (2): 7 x 5 inches. Near Fine. Program: 7.25 x 10.25 inches. 17 leaves. Near Fine in saddle-stapled wrappers. All material housed together in an original glassine envelope as issued.
Die Erregung, Hemmung und Narkose

Die Erregung, Hemmung und Narkose by Vvedenskii [Wedensky], E N - NEUROLOGY

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Die Erregung, Hemmung und Narkose
Author
Vvedenskii [Wedensky], E N - NEUROLOGY
Seller
Palinurus Antiquarian Books (United States)
Condition
Very Good.
Description
Bonn: M Hager, 1904. First German Ed. Offprint.. orig. prtd. wrappers.. Very Good.. 8vo, 152 pp. There are text illus. throughout. This is a report of Wedensky's extended researches into the physiology of peripheral nerves. It was originally published in Russian in 1901 and then presented at the 5th congress of physiology in Turin and published in the Archiv. fur die ges. Physiologie (this offprint). Wedensky examines three distinct action states of the nerve and re-defines the general theory of nerve excitation in relation to the central nervous system. See G-M for author's other entries.
Sunset Canyon (Black Sun)

Sunset Canyon (Black Sun) by ABBEY, Edward

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Title
Sunset Canyon (Black Sun)
Author
ABBEY, Edward
Seller
Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
ISBN
9780900735035
Condition
Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Description
London:: Talmy, Franklin Limited,. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1972. Hardcover. 0900735031 . A novel. The American edition was published under the title BLACK SUN. First British edition. Near fine in a near fine (tiny closed edge tear at the crown of the spine) dust jacket. ; 159 pages .
Country Life. Scottish Number. August 14, 1969. Vol. CXLVI No. 3780

Country Life. Scottish Number. August 14, 1969. Vol. CXLVI No. 3780

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Country Life. Scottish Number. August 14, 1969. Vol. CXLVI No. 3780
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The Kelmscott Bookshop (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
London: Country Life, 1969. Paperback. Very Good. Paperback. Articles on Scottish farming, Cyclopean kilns and quarries, the Fiat 1256 Special Salon, Dutch art coming to Scotland, Galloway, National Pony Show, and more. Illustrated blue paper wrappers with white spine panel titled in blue. Soiling and wear to covers and edges. Clean interior. Minor wear to page edges. pagination: 368 - 422. PER/102621.
Philosophy: Who Needs It

Philosophy: Who Needs It by Rand, Ayn

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Title
Philosophy: Who Needs It
Author
Rand, Ayn
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Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9780672527258
Condition
Good
Description
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/very Good. Good in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($15.95), a few shallow chips and tears at the edges. Green paper-covered boards with gilt lettering on the spine. Firmly bound with a slight forward lean, many dog-eared pages with pencil marginalia. A collection of Rand's essays that reveal "the hidden philosophic premises at work in the human soul.
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The Shadow of the Wind by Ruiz-Zafon, Carlos; Graves, Lucia

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The Shadow of the Wind
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Ruiz-Zafon, Carlos; Graves, Lucia
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Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
Penguin, 2004. Very Good. Ruiz-Zafon, Carlos. The Shadow of the Wind. Graves, Lucia. NY: Penguin, 2004. 486pp. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with rubbed edges and tar in top of front joint. Previous owner's name on first and last pages..

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